The Magazine

Issue 52: Autumn 2007

The Book in the World

Highlights

Interviews with Ritu Menon and Ntone Edjabe.

Fiction by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu and Merryn Glover.

Poetry by Sridala Swami and Lizzy Dijeh.

Marina Warner on the book as object, cultural memory and cyberspace and the ‘Books That Made Me’, a literary column with contributions from Margaret Busby, Michael Horovitz, Blake Morrison, Beverley Naidoo, Alexandra Pringle, Boyd Tonkin and others.

Becky Ayebia Clarke reports on the 2007 Caine Prize for African Writing and there are reviews of Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society by Anindita Ghosh and Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India Under the Raj by Rimi B Chatterjee.